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Filter Forge Professional

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Filter Forge is a powerful plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters.
On the surface, Filter Forge is just a Photoshop plugin, a pack of filters that generate textures, create visual effects, enhance photos and process images. However, there are things that make Filter Forge unique. One of these is that you can create your own filters.
Filter Forge comes with a visual node-based editor that enables you to create your own filters – textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, frames, and so on.
All filters will automatically support 16- and 32-bit modes in Photoshop, real-world HDRI lighting, bump and normal maps, huge resolutions and seamless tiling.
You will also get free access to about 4500 user-created filters as anyone can contribute their textures and effects to the online filter collection so it grows with every submitted filter. This means the more people use Filter Forge, the better it gets.
The features:
-Filter Editor
A visual node-based editor lets you create visual effects and procedural textures without a single line of code.
-Online Filter Library
A free online repository of filters submitted by Filter Forge users. Contributors can earn a free copy of Filter Forge.
-Seamless Tiling
All filters in Filter Forge support seamless tiling, even for non-square textures.
-Bump and Normal Maps
Filter Forge can generate diffuse, bump, specular and normal maps, all seamlessly tiled and anti-aliased.
-Resolution Independent
As all filters are generated procedurally, any filter can be rendered in any resolution without losing a detail.
-HDRI Lighting
Instead of the old-style point lights, Filter Forge lighting system uses high dynamic range images that capture real-world lighting conditions. As a result, you get real-world lighting which takes almost no time to set up.
-16- and 32-Bit Image Modes
Filter Forge uses a full floating-point rendering pipeline, which allows it to support 16-bit images and the new 32-bit image mode in Photoshop CS2.
-Floating-Point File Formats
You can save your work in high-precision image formats such as OpenEXR or PFM. Unlike the traditional image formats such as JPG or BMP, these formats use floating-point numbers to store the pixels, which allows to retain every single bit of precision.
-Smart Anti-Aliasing
Anti-aliasing, when done in the usual brute-force way, can be devastating to rendering speed. Filter Forge applies anti-aliasing only to those areas of the image that tend to produce aliasing artifacts, which results in vastly improved rendering times.
-Dual-Core CPU Support
Filter Forge rendering engine is built to fully utilize the power of dual-core and quad-core processors. A dual-core processor can speed the rendering up to 96% (83 to 86% is the norm). Once we even saw a speedup of 115% – don't ask, we have no idea how that is possible!
-Huge Resolutions
The biggest one we tried was 65536x65536 pixels – and it worked! Granted, it took hours, but anyway! Furthermore, the interface remained responsive – we were able to zoom and pan the preview while rendering that monstrosity.
-Standalone Version
Filter Forge can work as a Photoshop plugin or a standalone application. Actually, the plugin part of Filter Forge is tiny – all it does is sending and retrieving the images. All processing is done within the main application.
-Adaptive Previews
The preview window in Filter Forge is always fully interactive – you can pan and zoom during the rendering. Plus, if you zoom in on a region of the image while rendering, Filter Forge will increase the rendering priority for that region so that you can see the results faster.
-Presets
You can save the settings of any filter as a preset to recall them at any time. All filters included with Filter Forge come with factory presets that give you a glimpse of what a filter can do and provide a good starting point to explore the filter's settings.
-Randomizer
With Randomizer, you can randomize filter settings in one mouse click – a relief for those who don't want to learn the controls just to explore a filter. You can configure the randomization strength, plus there's a Back button allowing you to return to the previously generated settings in case you click Next too eagerly.
-Favorites
Favorites allow you to quickly access the filters you use most frequently – just add a filter to Favorites and its shortcut will appear in the Favorites folder.
- 9 out of 10
Requirements:
- Pentium III 733 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM
Limitations:
-30 days trial

Downloadtube.com Editor Final Note:

A really powerful and fully-featured plugin for Adobe Photoshop that lets you easily build your own filters and can be also used as a standalone tool.

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